Chapter 59: The Childhood Friend’s Way of Self-Consolation

At the same time, at Kang Hye-eun’s house.

“…….”

An A-class Hunter from Eun & Ok Co., Ltd.

A shield user with the awakened ability ‘Warrior of the Guardian Shield,’ and the leader of the A-class Hunter party ‘Sky Blue Shield’.

Also, she, Kang Hye-eun, who was Sung Taekyung’s childhood friend, lay on her bed and quietly recalled one person’s face.

“Taekyung-ah….”

She thought he was the closest person to her besides family, but his name felt particularly distant today.

Just until recently, she thought they had shared true love and advanced to a deep relationship, but the answer she received was the absurd ‘sex friend’ instead of a romantic relationship, so Kang Hye-eun’s confused mind showed no signs of calming down even after several days.

“Why do you keep confusing me, Taekyung-ah….”

In her childhood. After following him, whose dream was to be a Hunter, to the same middle school, she decided to become a strong Hunter in his stead since he showed no signs of awakening, and through that effort, she obtained her A-class Hunter qualification immediately after graduating high school and was soaring as a Hunter.

For some reason, every time her goal of fulfilling his dream for him progressed, Sung Taekyung felt like he was drifting further away from her, and the recent ‘sex friend’ declaration had effectively turned that suspicion into certainty.

“Haa, what am I even doing….”

Yet, the funny thing was, she still held onto Sung Taekyung, unable to let go easily, harboring lingering feelings.

In fact, she had started suspecting that he was secretly seeing other women after the ‘sex friend’ declaration.

Whenever she visited his house without notice, the childhood friend who used to lounge around in the second-floor bedroom was no longer there, and including today, she had visited Sung Taekyung’s house three times already, only to return without even seeing his face.

Kang Hye-eun, whose intuition had sharpened considerably as the leader of an A-class party, had a vague idea of where her childhood friend might be and what he was doing, even late at night.

She just kept a slim possibility in her heart that it wasn’t happening, simply because she hadn’t witnessed his infidelity firsthand.

Actually, the word ‘infidelity’ might even be strange; she wasn’t his lover or girlfriend, just a childhood friend.

Despite having been intimate several times already, his slutty behavior of calling her merely a ‘sex friend’ wasn’t exactly pleasant, but sadly, such a statement was far from enough to end the feelings Kang Hye-eun had built up over more than ten years.

She was waiting for her childhood friend like a sucker, thinking that his current actions might just be a phase of wandering, and that if he was by her side in the end, it might be enough.

“Haa, seriously. What am I even thinking.”

Kang Hye-eun herself found her own foolish actions unbelievable.

However, not acting according to rational thought was the essence of being human, and more importantly, whenever she thought of Sung Taekyung, her childhood friend, the memories of the passionate sex they shared naturally came flooding back.

Emotionally overwhelmed by the events of the past few days, she took a deep breath of the mattress, still carrying his scent, and quietly brought her right hand down to her lower body.

–jjilgeut.

“Euhh.”

She hadn’t seen his face for days, nor had they communicated via phone or text, so it was inevitable that she missed his embrace, which felt like floating in a dream.

Since she had cut off all conversation after her last outburst, it was only common sense that Sung Taekyung wouldn’t contact her first before she reached out.

Even knowing this, Kang Hye-eun was waiting for him to contact her first.

It was Kang Hye-eun’s nature to be stubborn in pointless matters, even while thinking her own foolish thoughts were selfish.

She had worked hard to become a strong Hunter in place of him, who couldn’t awaken as a Hunter; as soon as she identified the students bullying him in high school, she secretly dealt with their ringleaders from the shadows; and she silently waited for him to regain his spirit after being frustrated by his inability to awaken.

Kang Hye-eun had done many things for Sung Taekyung secretly, but her fragile pride wouldn’t allow her to explain those things to him in a pathetic manner, and naturally, her true feelings were never conveyed because she didn’t speak honestly.

If Kang Hye-eun had let go of even half her pride and been a little more honest with Sung Taekyung, perhaps he might have given up on awakening and chosen her instead – though she would never know this moving forward.

–jjilggeuk, jjilggeuk.

“Euhh, hha.”

Right now, she didn’t even have the luxury to think about such things, only quietly indulging her carnal desires.

It was sexual desire that had built up over several days without the person she loved.

At first, she didn’t feel like it for a while because of his absurd statement, but that only lasted a day or two.

The slight stress accumulated over days, the feminine instinct built up from clashing with monsters and shields daily on the front lines, and even the faint scent of the traces of lovemaking between Sung Taekyung and herself on the mattress.

By the time she came to her senses, Kang Hye-eun’s left hand was already digging inside her pajama top, while her right hand had been inside her underwear for a while, stimulating her private parts with her fingers.

“Euhh… hht!”

The sensation of sexual pleasure after a long time.

For her, who had no time to meet Sung Taekyung due to her busy days, and barely had time even for self-pleasure, this was a precious time to finally release her pent-up sexual desire after so long.

–jjilgeok.

She felt her finger, slick and sticky, slowly parting and entering her hole, and Kang Hye-eun’s body began to heat up with the gradually creeping pleasure, but.

–jjilkkeok, jjilkkeok.

“Eu, euh….”

For some reason, the sensation felt subtly different from when her childhood friend touched her, and Kang Hye-eun felt a slight lack.

She knew there was a difference between being touched by someone else and touching herself, but when she had sex with Sung Taekyung, she recalled a much more ticklish sensation enveloping her mind even before full penetration.

Now, it just felt like her finger was touching her body, closer to a simple bodily reaction than the genuine pleasure she experienced during her first time.

–jjilkkeok, jjilkkeok.

“Euhh, haa, haa….”

Of course, feeling pleasure just with her body wasn’t a problem in itself, and Kang Hye-eun’s body did heat up gradually with the movement of her fingers.

Her left hand kneading her breasts and nipples, her right middle finger stirring inside her body, the masturbation, which had initially only produced the sound of friction against the mucous membrane, had now become quite a serious pursuit of pleasure.

–jjilgeok, jjilgeok, jjilgeok.

In the quiet room, only the sound of a slender finger moving back and forth inside her hole could be heard.

“Eugeuhht, uhp…! Taekyung, ahhaht…!”

Added to that, only the wet moans of a woman in pleasure echoed.

“Heeeuuuuht…!!”

Her back arched involuntarily from pleasure, rising from the bed, and Kang Hye-eun reached a weak climax.

“Ha, haa…. ……Heeu.”

Literally, it was just a ‘weak climax,’ so it wasn’t very satisfying.

‘When I had sex with Taekyung last time, it didn’t feel like this….’

Kang Hye-eun still remembered experiencing intense pleasure during the foreplay phase, enough to almost send her body flying several times, and during the moments of penetration and climax, she had been enveloped in a blissful sensation as if floating through the universe.

By now, this level of pleasure was insufficient to satisfy Kang Hye-eun, so naturally, her hand began to move busily once more.

–jjilkkeueuk….

“Ha, just once…. Just one more time….”

She intended to insert her finger deeper to hasten the climax and stop immediately after reaching orgasm just one more time, but.

–jjigeok, jjigeok!

“Heeuup…! Pahaaat…!!”

Even the next climax, reached within about 10 minutes, didn’t escape the ‘weak climax’ status for Kang Hye-eun, and ultimately, the more she continued masturbating, the more she writhed in the desire to be released from pleasure.

“If only Taekyung were here at times like this…. Ah, no….”

Amidst the mediocre pleasure, Kang Hye-eun hastily retracted the words she had unintentionally mumbled.

Calling the name of the person she loved just because she couldn’t feel it through masturbation-wasn’t that like treating him solely as a sexual partner?

Of course, the sex she had with Sung Taekyung was a happier sensation than any ecstasy she had ever felt, but to seek him out again after just a few days, despite keeping her distance to calm her confused mind, solely because of sex?

This made her feel like she only wanted his body, and Kang Hye-eun felt a slight sense of self-loathing.

‘No…. I don’t just like Taekyung’s body….’

I just purely love him, who I’ve been with since childhood.

The kisses I shared with him.

The sex I had with him.

Those things were merely catalysts that made me like him even more, stemming from my existing affection for him.

Therefore, contacting him again because she couldn’t forget their sex was something her pride wouldn’t permit.

“Bu-but….”

Still, seeing his face again after so long should be okay, right?

It’s been nearly five days since we last saw each other’s faces, and it’s about time we made up.

I’m not driven by desire like those bitches who bullied Sung Taekyung back in school.

Even if we’re not lovers, he’s still the person I like, and he told me that the fact he’s precious to me hasn’t changed.

It’s not strange that Taekyung’s face comes to mind in this situation.

“…….”

Her desire unresolved halfway, her feelings for Sung Taekyung intensified even further, and she reached out for the smartphone on her desk.

「Taekyung-ah, are you perhaps busy this weekend?」

Without thinking, she wrote down her feelings towards him, following her heart.